A Plea to Right the DELETE ALL Key

This key, which can be found on the stock Apple keyboard when in landscape mode, has resulted in the loss of entire thoughtfully written paragraphs using Pages on more than four occasions. Its placement above the comma key is quite precarious. I'd like to see it omitted come iOS 9, or at least a means of redoing what was accidentally undone added in Pages.
I understand this is in reality a silent plea, but I have grown to loathe this key and had to say something somewhere.
p.s. It would also be nice to see the stock keyboard be given the ability to split using the iPhone just as I hear it can split on the iPad. But if I had to choose between this desire and the one expressed above, the correction of the mistake made by someone to add a button that deletes everything done since you either last hit Enter or Backspace right above the comma button would be my choice.

This is a user-to-user support forum. You can make the suggestion to Apple at https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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i think i may have experienced this before...def. not frequently.
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You can't delete all cookies if you want to preserve some of them.
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
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Hello,
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Perhaps I need to define this user as a participant and not as a moderator. How do I do that?
First I must emphasize the fact that I dont need KM Discussion Groups iview .
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Hello:
Karin
you say I don't know which LayoutSet I am using.
I want to say that I ues the KM discussions iview,but this iview has not layoutset.I can't find the LayoutSet in the Properties set.
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Mechanist wrote:
At some point I told Time Machine to get rid of backups of a particular file using the "Delete all backups of ..." option. Time Machine duly deleted the backups of the file and stopped making new ones.
Not exactly. It did delete the existing backups, but didn't make any new ones because the file hasn't changed since then.
The easiest way to get it to back it up is to make a minor change to it (the name or something in the contents), then change it back. Time Machine should back it up on the next backup.
Alternatively, you need to force a "deep scan," where Time Machine compares everything on your system to the backups. Usually, just starting up from your Recovery HD will do that, although sometimes you have to start from it and Repair your internal HD to trigger it.
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Hi,
sorry I don't know why.
Mail Apple your question here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
Have Fun and thanks for the star
Stefan

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does a factory reset delete all and make the new copy of OS completely fresh?
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hello, all...
Please somebody know one way to select all emails in one touch in ios on iphone.
In brazil, were i live, nobody have this answer.
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This does not answer/solve the OP's question/problem as they would still have to select each email individually before selecting the "delete all" button. In the end this the same as selecting "delete" on each message individiually.
There is no practical way to do what the OP wants.

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"Delete All Backups" command not working...

I just started using Time Machine for the first time about a month ago with my new MacBook Pro. Recently, it started notifying me that it was out of space and automatically deleting the oldest backups, which I thought was odd, because my external Time Machine backup partition is 500GB and my startup disk only had 150GB of data (on a 260GB partition). Well, after checking the backups I quickly found the problem. I have three partitions on my internal drive, and Time Machine was backing them all up (I had thought Time Machine would only back up my startup disk). So I added the other two partitions to the "disks to Exclude list". That part worked and my new backups only include my startup drive. But I want to get rid of the all the backups of my other partitions, so I opened up Time Machine and tried to manually delete their backups, but it's not working.
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I guess if nothing else I could try and reformat the Time Machine backup disk and start over, but I shouldn't have to right? This is really puzzling...

daehl wrote:
SOLVED!
Yes, It appears that Time Machine CANNOT delete files that are locked for some reason.
that's not true. it's perfectly capable of doing that.
Originally I assumed that since I could not delete a file directly from within the Time Machine volume's "Backups.backupdb" subfolders, that I would not be able to unlock it. But you can! I simply located the files in the backup, chose Get Info on them and un-checked their "Locked" checkbox.
something is really wrong with your backups. you should not even be able to unlock any locked files in TM backups as they should be all protected by hidden ACLs to prevent people from messing with them from finder.
And the lock status change took effect! Then went back to Time Machine and chose "Delete All Backups of..." and selected the volume in that backup, and they instantly disappeared!!!
That's pretty strong empirical proof that Time Machine has a problem with locked files.
no, it's a strong evidence that your TM backups are messed up.
I have repeated it with about a dozen various files that were locked and all behaved the exact same way. So I think this is pretty strong evidence to a "bug" in Time Machine!

How to delete all emails in inbox on ipad

How do I delete all emails at once in the ipad inbox

You actually can:
it took me weeks of research to figure out finally how to decode this yet another secretive secrets of apple. there is a perfect way of deleting ALL emails at once without jailbreaking your iphone or ipad...and here it is:
Open Inbox>>EDIT >> check/select the top message, it will highlight the move button >>press and hold the move button and uncheck the message that you had checked earlier >> lift all your fingers off from the ipad screen and leave it alone. wait until all your messages pile up on the right hand portion of the screen (in ipad). iphone will give you the actual number of emails it has selected for the action. now they are just waiting for your command to be moved ALL at once. >> choose trash to delete all of them or any other folder where u want to move them, like one piece. remember this will replicate your action on the server so u will ACTUALLY move them or delete them on the server and not just the ipad.
once you have moved all messages to trash you can either leave them there for the scheduled cleaning or empty it right away by doing this: go to trash folder and click edit. the delete all button shows up at the bottom of the screen. hit it! you r done!
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2. avoid purging very large number of emails, the mail app might freeze or crash. if your inbox has thousands of emails change your sync settings in mail settings to fill lesser number of emails in you inbox

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